Pornography, being a multi-billion dollar industry, is a topic that people tend to avoid when faced with the conversation about it. However, it is clear that people of both genders will find ways to get into this industry. If this were not the case, the industry would not accumulate the billions of dollars it represents today. What few people understand or take the time to explore is what pornography actually is. Pornography has been around for centuries and has since affected countless people. Pornography is defined as “printed or visual material containing the explicit description or demonstration of sexual organs or activities, intended to stimulate sexual arousal” (Lubben). The word pornography is derived from the Greek words por'ne ("prostitute") and graphein ("to write"). Essentially, when we watch pornography, we are witnessing prostitution (Lubben). Buying, viewing or selling pornography is participating in the prostitution industry. On the other hand, prostitutes also experience a lot of hardship within the industry. The president of the Rose Cross Foundation and former porn star is part of this nonprofit organization that saves women from the porn industry, fights pornography in the justice system, seeks health safety and trying to end sex trafficking. , and enforce labor legislation. While some women in the industry find nothing wrong or immoral in their work, others claim they want a way out but don't know a safe way out. This woman, Shelley Lubben, was a porn star for eight years, and after leaving the industry, she was in recovery for another eight years. She said she “takes care of their waste,” meaning the waste of those who work in the industry. She found that women in the industry become depressed, feel isolated ... middle of paper ... o of this. This addiction is even likened to that of a drug addiction because people cling to it and continually try to reach new heights. For starters, people repeatedly return to the material for sexual arousal and arousal. Second, people feel an increasing need for more explicit, deviant and sexually shocking content to achieve the same level of sexual stimulation. Third, people become desensitized to what they initially viewed as crude and offensive material, and over time the material becomes acceptable and desirable to the viewer. Finally, pornography addicts increasingly tend to “enact” the sexual activities they have seen (Lubben). Needless to say, watching pornography is not something that is easy to put aside once those images are placed in your head.